Lineal or Coexistent Time?

I was looking at the work of a friend; Valentina Glockner Fagetti. She studied migrant Mexican children; using photographs, drawings, and other methods to communicate with them. I read an essay by Humberto Maturana in the Chilean Psychology magazine, Gaceta de Psiquiatría Universitaria, on Way of Life and Culture, in the same magazine, Rafael E. Núñez, explains his findings on the concept of time, with Aymara Indians of Chile.

These works educate my concept of time. I have taught classical mechanics for almost twenty years now. Most of the time I regurgitated what one finds in Physics books, first about the absolute concept of Isaac Newton, and then the relative concept of Einstein.

Some of us wonder if time is what we think it is; and more importantly, what do we think time is.


Today I found out that a group of physicists converted one photon into three.

The question that designates this note, I believe, has the answer: Coexistent.

In Computer Science, one can follow just one thread for a single program say, or set up a Virtual State Machine, doing several things at once.

Human labor, has always guided philosophical thinking, therefore the new Information Technology era, has produced its own set of new concepts. Most programmers reading this, won't have any trouble accepting parallel computing as a very useful contribution to human society. Physicists though, still keep regurgitating the same old thing.

Slowly, but surely, we are getting it!

About what is happening in AZ tomorrow; I want to translate this from Valentina's work:

``Al presidente de Estados Unidos yo le diría que no nos traten mal porque nosotros cuando
vienen acá no les hacemos así. Yo le diría que se siente mal que tu papá se tenga que ir
y que esté lejos, que lo extrañas y que también a él le cuesta trabajo trabajar y también
trabaja de noche y a veces tiene hambre. La migración por un lado es bueno porque él
trabaja y nos manda dinero y el malo es que lo extrañamos mucho.
(Jorge, 13 años) ''

I would say to the President of the US not to treat us bad because we do not do that when
they come here. I would say that it feels bad that your father has to go and he stays
far away, that we miss him and also he has trouble working and also he works
at night and is hungry sometimes. On one side immigration is good because
he works and sends us money and the bad side is that we miss him a lot.
(Jorge, 13 y)